The buildings in which aspiring starchitects engage in their creative pursuits are more often than not space-time continuums, clad in banality. Bestor Architecture altruistically fashions a digression from this architectural warp in the form of ¡Disco Silencio! – a temporary disco installation. With architecture students as the “imagined” client, the temporary disco installation provides a lightly hedonistic program that aims to support social and communal experiences.

A burgeoning firm driven by context and experience, Bestor Architecture propagates designs that enable users to interact and experience strange beauty in their everyday environments. Rather than producing an inert object, ¡Disco Silencio! constructs a dynamic process that frames and encourages visual, physical, and social pleasure. Founding Principal Barbara Bestor envisions the installation as a “nightlife student-oriented component of the firm’s larger project-making architecture. The design of the structure is an over-scaled, unfolded demi-dodecahedron model that contains a strong graphic interface. The title ‘Silent Disco’ refers to both the less populated hours of the gallery and to the space itself, when it is unplugged but still dancing.”

¡Disco Silencio! encourages visual excess and explores the space between social promiscuity and solipsistic trance. There will be two disco dance party nights in conjunction with the installation: ‘Disco Silencio’ on April 1st and ‘Disco Callado’ on April 22nd, both with live dj sets. The installation will run from April 1st, 2011 through May 15th, 2011 at SCI-Arc Gallery.


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